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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:02:53 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/sportsmedia/?p=9641#comment-31905The winter sports, basketball and hockey wold both benefit from a reduced schedules, but like many have said, it won’t happen. The playoff quality is excellent as the level of play goes up dramatically, something that will never be replicated in mid-January.

The arenas also would balk at a 66 game schedule, they need dates to fill the places up, losing 8 dates can’t be made up with concerts and other diversions.

Ideally, both hockey and basketball would have 60 game seasons and a postseason that ends soon after Memorial Day, but we know that won’t happen.

Even baseball, with the benefit of teams playing at least 5 times, if not 6 times per week has too long of a regular season. I love the Triple A season of 144 games, starting the first Thursday of April and ending on Labor Day. MLB SHOULD do that. They could have a best of 3 wild card series, then four of sevens the rest of the way and still get done by mid-October. Once again, because of revenue, it won’t happen.